“Pedro Canché: The Maya journalist running circles around Mexican media”, 22 Sep 16

…Five days ago, the tropical island of Holbox, off Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, caught fire. Reports of smoke billowing over the uninhabited southern tip of the island were first shared over social media…while Pedro Canché, known across the Yucatan as "the Maya journalist", prepared to interview…the Governor-Elect of the state of Quintana Roo…[In an] interview with a resident… he alleges the local Ejido title-holders were tricked into signing over their common-land-rights, so the private company Peninsula Maya Developments could build hotels on the undeveloped part of the island. "They took advantage of our innocence but not our ignorance," Zapata proclaimed, calling the politicians 'bandits'. The case is now in the Mexican Supreme Court…In 2015, 14 Maya from Holbox were charged with clearing slithers of mangrove forest for their motorized canoes and wooden fishing boats and subsequently sent to prison. If the fire was indeed caused by Peninsula Maya Developments to clear land to build massive hotels and nobody was held to account—then it was further proof that in Quintana Roo there are rules for the rulers and rules for the ruled…